In allen meinen Taten

In allen meinen Taten. Paul Fleming* (1609-1640). Written on the eve of Fleming’s first journey to Riga, Novgorod and Moscow. It was originally entitled ‘Nach des VI Psalmens Weise’, and dated ‘1633 November’. The anxiety of Psalm 6 emerges in the hymn’s stanza 2, ‘mein Sorgen ist umsonst’ (‘My sorrow is in vain’), but the hymn also reflects the comfort of the psalm in stanzas 8-9. The protector is Christ (in the original stanza 7, not included in EG). While beginning in the manner of Psalm 6, the hymn is evidently a New Testament one. It had fifteen 6-line stanzas, some of which are particularly suited to travellers (6-11, 13, 14). These have been omitted in EG, where the abbreviated...